29.07.2007

Today we will talk on Divine Mind and Human Mind.

Assume that this white board is Source, Consciousness, God…whatever you wish to call it. Though this board does have boundaries, assume with me, for the purpose of this discussion that this board has no boundaries. This white board is blank, waiting to be written on. This white board may seem blank, yes, but this white board, this Source, has something within it, which you will not see unless you have the vision. It has POTENTIAL. The board has the potential to be written upon. It does not judge what is written upon it. It gives me, the writer, the freedom to write upon it whatever I choose. I could write upon it ‘joy’, ‘love’. I could also write upon it ‘hate’, ‘war’. The board does not dictate what is written; I do. And when I don’t want something written, I erase it. The board is not less of a board because I have erased the words, but then the board was not more of a board because I had earlier written the words. It has remained what it is….a white board with the potential to be written upon. This is Divine Mind.

Divine Mind is blank till there are words written upon it; words written by you and I. have you noticed that none of you are paying any attention to this blank white board, but now as I turn to write upon it, you crane your heads eagerly to see what I will write. The board gets your attention only when it is not blank…when potential is turned to reality.

YOU are humanity, and though we intellectualize that we are interested in the Divine Mind, this is not true as pure potential offers no challenge…Interest in it is generated when potential converts to possibility…when I take action….pick up this pen and write on it. Suddenly the board offers you something to read, to focus on.

Divine Mind has only one thing to offer us…POTENTIAL. Is there any word that you can think of which I would not be able to write on this board? It could be the worst abuse and I could still write it. It could be the most fulsome praise, and I could write that as well.  It could be an ugly caricature, or a radiant picture of someone you love. Why is it that there is nothing that can’t be written on this board?  Because the blank board has the potential for anything and everything… as you, the holder of the pen, desires. Now you can answer quite easily … who is more important? The blank white board, or the one who has the pen?

If I focus on what I write I could make this board look beautiful. I could write an inspiringly poetic verse of Gibran which could make the reader joyous. I could also spew out words of hatred and anger and loathing which you will read and will retreat in fear or unpleasantness. But you also have the power to say “I don’t like what is written; I am rubbing it out.” Though I have written something, you have the choice to read it or erase it. 

If you choose to read it, you don’t have to like it, and if you don’t like it, I ask you, why do you still continue to read it? Is it because that you don’t know that you have an eraser that you could use? Is it because you know you have the eraser but don’t know how to use it? Is it because you have the eraser and know how to use it, but are just too scared to do so?

The Human Mind is, in fact, the single most significant instrument to enhance the Divine Mind. It is not the Divine Mind that enriches me, but I who enriches the Divine Mind.  And yes, friends, some might choose to enrich it by drawing what seems to you a very ugly picture, because of the deep pain of abuse caused to them. But, friends, the picture is ugly…not the person who draws it. And if you find the picture ugly you have two options before you. Erase it or ignore it and turn around and walk away, or you could embrace the person and encourage him to draw a beautiful picture with you, with your help and love and support.

Divinity is not blank. Divinity is not a realm of nothingness. Divinity is you sitting there; divinity is me as I stand here. This (pointing to the human mind) is the Divine Mind. This (white board) is potential. This (human mind) is possibility. We are living in a practical world, action-oriented, goal-determined. How can we allow ourselves to use dependency on potential as a crutch?

If I asked you to write or draw a description of ‘God’, each one of you would give me something completely different, because you will draw or describe the ‘god’ that YOU are. Does this not give you the logical conclusion, that if there were one singular ‘God’, Divine Mind, it would have one constant shape, picture, colour, size, form, sense, feel? How could this ‘God’ keep changing? If I asked you to draw this chair, you would all draw it exactly the same, because the chair does not change with your perception. Are you trying to tell me that this ‘God’, this Divine Mind that you so fervently seek, is so impermanent, more impermanent than a chair? No. You seek the picture that you draw or describe of god; you seek the god within you.

S will you please share with us the statement that you wrote which inspired you to ask me to talk on this subject?

I thank my human mind for having served me so well, but now I release it to allow my Divine Mind free and complete access to every part of me and who I am.

Thank you.

S thought that Divine Mind was something bigger than her. Let us study this valuable message. ‘Human mind’…as soon as S read this she internally described it as small, limited, unexpanded, restricted, egoistic, prejudiced. Why? Because that is who she was!! But that same persona served her well. It served her to bring her to a place where she was able to acknowledge that she was all of these. And it brought her to that place through pain, through conflict, through stress, through abandonment. Of course, S’s initial reaction was rebellion, anger, fear, fight, but now she has to thank it for playing its role and for the service it rendered to her. For the self realization it facilitated. But now she releases it with the acknowledgement ‘that is who I was, but that is not who I AM’. She has transformed from constriction to expansion, from abandonment to embrace, from fear to love, from ignorance to wisdom. Is that not Divine Mind?

Where once S chose to write limitation, prejudice, ignorance, ego, she now chooses to write love, acceptance, strength, embrace. When she looked at the white board with the words she did not wish to read, she chose to call it ‘human mind’ so that in that description she would find a justification for her earlier choices. She learnt that she does not like to read ignorance but likes to read wisdom. So erase and rewrite. Not ‘abandonment’ but ‘embrace’. So she began to write CONSCIOUSLY. And this she called Divine Mind.

Earlier the mind was compartmentalized; X can stay here, Y can stay there. As the ‘ugly’ words began to be erased the boundaries within the mind also began to be erased; instead there was an outer limit which could be pushed whenever she wanted, and however far she wanted. Free and complete access to every part of me and who I am.  She is the holder of the pen. She can draw bigger and bigger circles, moving ever outwards.

What do we do with this pen? We convert potential to possibility. Let us discuss this further. When the ‘ugliness’ is written, we are still converting potential to possibility. How? Through criticism, judgment, unkindness, harshness. The blank white board has the potential to be written upon IN ANY WAY YOU CHOOSE. With every choice YOU convert a part of the potential to possibility, whether that possibility is one of war or one of peace, one of ignorance or one of wisdom, one of condemnation or one of tolerance. When you convert potential to possibility in a CONSCIOUS manner, you choose the words with care, and you choose only those words that appeal to your sense of inner beauty.

When there is lack of conscious awareness manipulative energies around you push the buttons of pain and conflict and rage within you, and thus what you write is not exclusively of your choosing, but as a reaction to your environment. To this you react by participating in the ‘blame game’.

When we leave our ethereal homes we come with two powerful tools…the pen and the eraser. We use one to write, but often we don’t remember that we have the other. And as a result of this, though we think that we choose what we wish to write, the truth is that your strings are pulled by a puppeteer external to you. With consciousness, this changes. You do not permit anyone to write upon your blank board. You fill the board with what you choose CONSCIOUSLY.

Often you feel that in a particular situation you just have no choice. That, my dear friends, is not true in any situation. There are always two choices; potential and possibility. Each time you say ‘I have choice’, in that instant someone else has snatched away your pen and written a word that you will find extremely unpleasant to read.

There is no blame to be apportioned to anyone for anything…for when you truly love yourself, how can you condemn another? Have you not hurt another in some way at some time? Hurt one, or hurt ten, or hurt hundred or a thousand….who makes the cut-off limit that makes it ok? Emotional hurt, mental hurt, physical hurt… who can judge whether one is better than the other? The perpetrator certainly cannot judge this; only the victim knows. So, none of us can ever judge the choice of potential and possibility made by another.

What is denseness? It is not the physical matter that you are made up of that is ‘denseness’. Denseness is the conditioning, the pain, the neglect, the criticism, the negation, the odious comparisons that you were subjected to as you grew up which has left no place in your mind for acceptance, fortitude, strength, unconditional love.  Your body is your temple, and your temple is not dense. And when you cannot honour your temple, you cannot see that another’s temple is so sacred, so pure, for in another’s temple you see the reflection of your own. Denseness exists within your thoughts, your beliefs, your judgments, your opinions.

To remove this denseness you have to make one simple, but very strong choice….choose to erase it. Choose to use the eraser. With this choice you will have large open spaces in your being that are constantly being converted into possibility, into action, into manifestation. Manifestation is the transmutation of potential into possibility, and then transmuting possibility into reality. And only YOU have the power to do this.

Only you have the power and this power is manifest when you have the courage to say ‘Only I hold the pen, and only I choose what to write on Divine Mind’.  But you still do not have that in your belief system that there is no Master except YOU!!!

You brought the two powerful tools, the pen and eraser, in order to use them for growth. You did not bring them for blame, for conflict and war, for abuse of power. You brought these so that you could convert the potential of a blank divine mind to the possibility of a human mind to the reality of a divine human being.